Slap down

As usual, I doubt you even heard of this interview unless you are English.

Of course the media doesn't want such obviously correct thinking distributed to the massess.

Justice Scalia, a conservative justice who was appointed to America's highest court by President Ronald Reagan in 1986, said he and the other justices had no option but to intervene once Mr Gore sought to overcome Mr Bush via the lower courts.

He said that he "of course" regretted that the Supreme Court had become involved. "But I don't know how we could have avoided it. Could we have declined to accept the case on the basis that it wasn't important enough?

Perhaps the most striking comment of all, especially for Demos who want to don virginal white, is this:

"And you know bear in mind that the issue wasn't whether or not the election was going to be decided by a court or not. It was whether it was going to be decided by the Florida court or by the United States Supreme Court, for a federal election.

That's the neatest slap down of the Florida court I have ever seen. Best one, too.